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THE HORRIFYING TRUTH ABOUT MEN

are either suffering a crisis of masculinity or they wield more power than ever. In his tricky psychosexual horror film writer-director Alex Garland explores both angles, suggesting that men don’t know who they are anymore, which only leads them to act out in disastrous ways, locked in a state of radical insecurity that’s creating a nightmare for women. Even if he offers no

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